Sprint WiMax coming in early 2008?

Looks like Sprint is buckling up to spread the joy of mobile WiMax in Q1 2008. First it’s going to be a customer trial, then they gear up for a full commercial launch in Q2. They are already planning a soft launch within a week for employees in Chicago, Baltimore, and Washington D.C, then from there they’d obviously expand the coverage. Sprint promised to run trials on the network by the end of this year, and by running this soft launch they’re able to uphold the self-imposed deadline. The Xohm, as the Sprint project is called, has been highly anticipated in the industry because of its speed and network reach. We’re suckers for widespread connectivity, so get a move on it Sprint, we’re excited to see how this develops, and we’ve already put some popcorn in the microwave.

Just one question: Will WiMax serve as an upgrade to current and future devices, or is it a hardware upgrade?

Galvatron

wi max is suposedly on diffrent frequency yor mogle only hav evdo radios wimax would require a new type of radio wich obviously means you gotta buy new hardware

Dtest5477

good move. faster they roll it out the better, they can pick up customers because they will be the best for data depending on coverage.
VZW moving towards their next data roll out as well.
Come on AT&T you cant even get you 3G out and they guys are one or two steps ahead.

jace.

Wait so will WiMax work on current sprint devices such as the pearl? And what exactly is it? If I understand correctly this means faster data speeds right?

Stephen

Wimax is not a backwards compatible upgrade to current devices, it is a 4G network platform and will require a hardware upgrade. However most devices will be dual or tri-mode as the wimax rollout won’t be available everywhere, be on the lookout for wimax/cdma wimax/wifi, etc.

JoeyDee

The only hybrid CDMA/WiMAX devices will be datacards. Sprint already anounced that thier CDMA network will be thier only one for voice coverage for the next sevral years, which is one of the many reasons why they’re using the name Xohm. However nothings going to stop people from using skype-enables WiMAX devices :P

David

Any idea of what kind of WiMax enabled devices Sprint will introduce? Any announcement yet?

http://deleted Tim

I’m going to sprint tmobile is dead I need somthing live

tradesman

I’d like to take the leap from T-Mobile to Sprint if I could get a similarly priced phone pkg.

K

same here lol b/c i thought they were boring and my bill was hight and my ppc 6700 was useless and troublesome.